[HN Gopher] George Orwell Outside the Whale ___________________________________________________________________ George Orwell Outside the Whale Author : samclemens Score : 14 points Date : 2021-12-12 02:14 UTC (20 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.newstatesman.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.newstatesman.com) | mitchbob wrote: | Archived: https://archive.ph/xbHlY | 1cvmask wrote: | My favorite interaction of Orwell with another writer is that | with Aldous Huxley. Aldous Huxley wrote this in a letter to | Orwell in 1949: | | Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will | discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more | efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, | and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied | by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging | and kicking them into obedience. In other words, I feel that the | nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into | the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I | imagined in Brave New World. The change will be brought about as | a result of a felt need for increased efficiency. Meanwhile, of | course, there may be a large-scale biological and atomic war -- | in which case we shall have nightmares of other and scarcely | imaginable kinds. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-12-12 23:00 UTC)